Effect of Frustration Intolerance and Emotional Maturity on Internet Addiction among Young Adults

The growth of internet usage has been exponential. There are currently 4.54 billion active internet users in present time. The internet was originally designed to facilitate the communication of information within academia and military. But despite the benefits there is growing evidence that the internet is adversely affecting the mental health and well being of users. Internet provides immediate reinforcement, when facing stressful events in daily life, beliefs of frustration intolerance may make adults unwilling to tolerate negative emotional events and may make users to escape from the unacceptable frustrations of daily life and seek immediate gratification from the internet. The present study focuses on the effect of frustration intolerance and emotional maturity on internet addiction among young adults. It was observed that both the frustration intolerance and emotional maturity have an effect on internet addiction. Further, this impact of both the variables on male and females and differences in their mean was observed through t-test.